Traceroute continues after reaching target destination

[MHThomas]

Sorry if this is something stupid, I am a Unix sysprog with only a vague understanding of networks.
I have a traceroute, that after reacing it's destination just keeps on going:
The target box has a hostname of OMR01, I have partially obscured the IP addresses:

traceroute to omr01 (999.999.999.20), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 999.999.999.81 (999.999.999.81) 1.510 ms 0.558 ms 0.695 ms

2 omr01 (999.999.999.20) 3.755 ms * fwl06 (999.999.999.102) 1.451 ms

3 fwm01 (999.999.999.71) 2.088 ms * 1.028 ms

4 999.999.999.81 (999.999.999.81) 2.918 ms 1.067 ms 0.941 ms

5 fwl06 (999.999.999.102) 1.554 ms * 1.809 ms

6 fwm01 (999.999.999.71) 1.148 ms * 1.357 ms

7 999.999.999.81 (999.999.999.81) 1.307 ms 1.269 ms 1.252 ms

8 fwl06 (999.999.999.102) 1.736 ms * 2.111 ms

9 fwm01 (999.999.999.71) 1.376 ms * 1.649 ms


and on and on until it dies at 30 hops.

Does this make sense to anybody, or is there an obvious problem here?

Cheers,

Mark T.

 

[burtsbees]

What system are you trying this on? What OS?

Burt

 

[MHThomas]

Hi,
sorry, traceroute is running on a sol8 machine, target is sol10.

cheers,

Mark T.

 

[burtsbees]

I'll have to fire up my Sunfire V480 then...I'll let you know what I find. My HP-UX box does not have a NIC...

Burt